Four sentences into her Wall Street Journal article on recent research into spanking ("Spanking for Misbehavior? It Causes More!" December 17, 2017), the author, Susan Pinker, makes two grievous errors: first, she says that children under 7 cannot master their emotions; second, she says a fair amount of misbehavior on the part of a young child distinguishes him from a robot.

The Portal Panthers (11-9, 7-3) rebounded nicely from a couple of losses over the weekend as they jumped out to an early lead, and never looked back, knocking off Savannah Country Day (5-14, 1-10) by a score of 56-32 Tuesday in Portal.

Beth Sands is known for her spikey blonde hair, colorful clothes and ever-present smile. She has coached and trained young athletes through the Parks and Recreation Department, is a water aerobics instructor at Splash in the Boro, and has been a softball and basketball coach at Bulloch Academy the past seven years.

Quarterbacks Sam Darnold, Lamar Jackson and Josh Rosen are among the record 106 underclassmen given special entry to the NFL draft, making it four of the last five seasons in which at least 95 players have declared early.

January 20, 2018|
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
|Sports

The Bulloch Academy boys had only tasted defeat on two occasions this year. One of those losses was by two points and the other was a season opening defeat to Savannah Christian, a GHSA school. Neither were as bad as Friday's 67-41 region loss to Frederica.

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA's five largest conferences approved sweeping changes in everything from medical care to basketball during the holidays on Friday, dashing through the agenda with little opposition and virtually no debate.